Q2: And England did not win the Rugby World cup in October 2007. Which was the last team they beat?A2: France

Q3: In the same week, the English football team was beaten by which team?A3: Russia

Q4: Joe Calzaghe became undisputed Super Middleweight world champion in November. Where did he win the title?A4: The Millenium Stadium, Cardiff (accept Cardiff)

Q5: During the same Nov weekend, Paula Radcliffe won the 1st Marathon she competed in after the birth of her daughter. Which one?A5: New York

Q6: The same weekend, the British golfer Justin Rose, came top of the European Order of Merit for 2007. He was lucky: the long-time leader of this had decided to leave for the Far East as it would be more lucrative. Who?A6:Ernie Els.

Q7: Who won the BBC Coach of the Year 2007 Award in December?A7: Enzo Calzaghe (Accept Mr Calzaghe senior or equivalent).

Q8: Andy Murray just failed to make the Masters Cup in November 2007, but where was it held?A8: Shanghai.

Supplementaries

Q9: Which was the team that defeated Wales in their last Rugby World Cup 2007 Match?A9: Fiji.

Q10: Which English Athlete was allowed back into international competition (excluding the Olympics) after a suspension for missing 3 drugs’ testA10: Christine Ohuruogu

Round 3: First Names

Give the first names (or the forename by which they were known – except where specified) of the following:

Q7: The rabbit is not indigenous to Britain. When was it introduced?A7: At the time of the Norman Conquest (Raised for food)

Q8: What is the other name for a hazel nut?A8: a filbert

Supplementaries.

Q9: Which is the smallest of the native deer (excluding the now naturalised Muntjak)?A9: the Roe Deer

Q10: What plant is also known as fireweed or bombsite plant?A10: Rosebay Willowherb

Round 6. That was the Year that Was (2007)

Q1: Name either of the countries that joined the EU in 2007.A1: Romania or Bulgaria.

Q2: The funeral of which former US President took place in 2007?A2: Gerald Ford.

Q3: Why did American Nancy Pelosi make the news in January 2007?A3: She was the 1st woman to become Speaker of the US House of Representatives.

Q4: In which month did Gordon Brown become Prime Minister?A4: June

Q5: What was the title of the last Harry Potter novel?A5: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Q6: Which country hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2007?A6: Finland

Q7: Name the actress subjected to racist abuse in Big Brother in 2007.A7: Shilpa Shetty

Q8: Name the vessel shipwrecked off Sidmouth in January 2007.A8: The Napoli

Supplementaries

Q9: In which month of 2007 did the Queen and Prince Phillip celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary?A9: November.

Q10: And which country won the Eurovision Song contest?A10: Serbia.

Round 7. History: The Tudors (yet another TV reference!)

Q1: What was England’s last possession in France, lost in the reign of Mary Tudor?A1: Calais.

Q2: Name either of the Lords Protector of the young Edward VI.A2: (The Duke of) Somerset or (The Duke of) Northumberland.

Q3: Who was the Scottish king whose army was defeated at Flodden by the English army of Henry VIII?A3: James IV.

Q4: For what are Lambert Simnel & Perkin Warbeck remembered?Q4: Being Pretenders (false claimants) to the throne of Henry VII.

Q5: What type of event was the Pilgrimage of Grace (in 1536)?A5: An uprising ( In the North of England, about Henry VIII’s religious changes.)

Q6: Why was Sir Thomas More executed?A6: For refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the English Church.

Q7: Where did Elizabeth I address the troops before the arrival of the Spanish Armada?A7: Tilbury.

Q8: Where did Henry VII gain the English crown?A8: The Battle of Bosworth Field (1485).

Supplementaries.

Q9: Why was Henry VIII given the title of Defender of the Faith by the Pope?A 9: For writing and attack on Martin Luther.

Q10: Who was the husband of Lady Jane Grey?A10: Lord Guild ford Dudley ( the son of the Duke of Northumberland).

Q11: Who was Lord High Treasurer for most of Elizabeth I’s reign?A11: William Cecil, Lord Burghley (either acceptable – same person!)

Round 8. Geography (ordered alphabetically!)

Q1: Hay on Wye lies at the edge of which National Park?A1: Brecon Beacons.

Q2: St Bees Head is the westernmost point in which county?A2: Cumbria.

Q3: What tourist feature on the River Dee, at Llangollen, is actually part of a canal water abstraction facility?A3: Horseshoe Falls.

Q4: In what county is the town of Eye?A4: Suffolk

Q5: Through which country does the River Enns flow?A6: Austria.

Q6: Oo is a village in France, but in which upland area?A7: The Pyrenees.

Q7: What British tourist attraction includes the Dutch House, Queens Cottage and the Chinese Pagoda?A7: Kew Gardens.

Q8: Through which major town does the Tees flow as it approaches the sea?A8: Middlesbrough.

Supplementaries.

Q9: In which county is Exmoor?Q9: Devon

Q10: What type of geographical feature, is CB, in Yorkshire?A10: A village (accept a place name).

Q11: A line between the mouths of two rivers is taken as dividing the generally upland and generally lowland areas of Britain. What is this line called, therefore?A 11: The ‘Tees – Exe Line’ after the Tees and the Exe

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1QWhich novelist ended his life as Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada?

a. John Buchan

2QWhich current Radio 4 series was first aired in 1951?

AThe Archers

3QWhich cricketer was the first to be knighted whilst still playing test match cricket?

ASir Richard Hadlee

4QWhich car manufacturer makes the Zafira?

AVauxall

5QIn which US city was “The House of the Rising Sun”?

ANew Orleans

6QIn which TV programme would you find Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy?

AIn the Night Garden

7QWho was the Catholic priest who buried Eleanor Rigby?

AFather McKenzie

8QWhich rugby player has the record for the highest number of individual points scored in international matches?

ANeil Jenkins

9QOn which TV programme is Kate Garraway a presenter?

AGMTV

10QWhat is the poet George Gordon more usually known as?

ALord Byron

11QWhich radio 4 series celebrated its 50th series just before Christmas?

AI'm Sorry, I haven't a Clue

12QWhich is Europe’s largest archipelago?

AThe Aland Islands, off Finland

13QWhich English king was known as Lackland?

AJohn

14QWhich manufacturer makes the I-Pod?

AApple

15QWhich Summer Olympics did not take place in a leap year?

AParis/1900 (which is not a leap year, as 00 years need to be divisible by 400, not 4!)

16QWho presented the 2nd Series of "Coast"?

ANeil Oliver

17QWhat company was founded by Jack Cohen with tea bought from T.E. Stockwell?

ATesco (T. E. S(tockwell) plus Co (hen))

18QAt which Olympics did Lynn “the leap” Davies gain his gold medal?

A1964 / Tokyo (either acceptable)

19QWho wrote the poem "Ozymandias"?

AShelley

20QWhich bowler overtook Shane Warne's record of test match wickets toward the end of 2007?

AMuttiah Muralitheran

21QWhich vegetable has varieties Snowcap and Snow Crown?

ACauliflower

22QWhich monarch was on the throne in 1608?

AJames I

23QThe Auracaria tree is known by 2 other names - give one.

AChile Pine or Monkey Puzzle Tree

24QFor which Newspapers does Auracaria compose crosswords?

AThe Guardian

25QWhat is name of the Hindu festival of lights, usually celebrated in November?

ADiwali

26QBlack velvet is a mixture of stout and which other alcoholic drink?

AChampagne

27QAt which London terminus would you arrive on a train from Southend?

ALiverpool Street

28QIn which Victorian poem is the line "She left the Web, she left the Loom"?

AThe Lady of Shallot (Tennyson)

29QWhich opera features the Polovtsian Dances?

APrince Igor

30QIn which city are there stations called Parkway and Temple Mead?

ABristol

31QWhat, medically, is Reflux?

AHeartburn

32QWhat was peculiar about September 1752?

AThe change of calendars (from Julian to Gregorian) meant that it only had 19 days in it. (exact number not essential - the calendar was adjusted by leaving out some days (11), so knowledge of this is the essential point of the question!)

33QWhich Caribbean island is known as the Pearl of the Antilles?

ACuba

34QWhich TV family lived in the mountains of Virginia?

AThe Waltons

35QWho is the patron of lost and stolen things?

ASt. Anthony (of Padua)

36QWhat is the common name for the plant Galanthus?

ASnowdrops

37QAccording to Shakespeare, of which country are Claudius and Gertrude rulers?

ADenmark

38QWhat have Amik the Beaver, Mischa the Bear, Sam the Eagle and Hodori the Tiger got in common?

AOlympic Mascots/Symbols

39QWhich English king was known as Longshanks?

AEdward I

40QTwo saints are traditionally named as the Patron Saint of Russia. Name one

ASt Nicholas or St Andrew

41QWhich of Julius Caesar’s 4 wives features in Shakespeare’s play?

ACalpurnia

42QWhich monarch was on the British throne in 1708?

AQueen Anne

43QAnd which famous actor narrates "In the Night Garden?"

ADerek Jacobi

44QXantippe was the famously ill-tempered wife of which Ancient Greek?

ASocrates

45QUnder what name did Isabella Mayson publish?

AMrs Beeton

46QThe Christian Feast of Michaelmas is celebrated in which month?

ASeptember

47QWhich sports goods company, founded by Joseph Foster in 1892, is now named after a species of South African antelope?

AReebok

48QIn The Tempest by Shakespeare, which Italian city-state is P******* duke of?

AMilan

49QWhat was the newspaper the Daily Herald re-named in 1964?

AThe Sun

50QFor what type of books was Baedeker known?

ATravel Writing

51QOf which British upland area is Cross Fell the highest point?

AThe Pennines

52QName the woman head of MI5 who retired in April 2007.

ADame Eliza Manningham-Buller

53QWho played the part of the evil emperor Commodus in "Gladiator"?

AJoaquin Phoenix

54QWhich firm manufactured a vehicle called Legend?

AHonda

55QWho was the unfortunate goal-keeper in the crucial England/Croatia match in Nov?

3 Comments:

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed playing in the league for five years(my father even longer), I ran out on my team-mates after three weeks of the current season, to move to Canada.Your blog is greatly appreciated, keep up the good work.Best of luck with the rest of the season.

Higginbotham as in Porters? I think your dad taught me history at Broken Cross.

Anyway...

There were quite a few errors in last week's questions. We've found 17 so far.

TV Catchphrases, Q2: It was Terry Jones, not Gilliam in the "Nudge Nudge" sketch.

TV Catchphrases, Q2: There's no such thing as the "The Kenny Everett Show". There was the Kenny Everett Video Show" (1978-1980), the "The Kenny Everett Video Cassette" (1980) and, with a move from Thames to the BBC, "The Kenny Everett Television Show" (1981 - 1987). So the answer of 1978-1981 is wrong.

General Knowledge, Q16: There's no such programme as "Telford Changes", which put me off thinking it was Peter Barkworth.

Q34: Skylab fell to Earth on 11th July 1979, after a total of 2248 days, not the 85 days in the answer (that was the 4th and final mission, but the answer was still a day out!).

Q35: English Football League matches were first played on 20th Jan 1974, not 1981, as Bob pointed out at the time.

Q51: There were two taglines for Titanic: "Nothing on Earth could come between them" and "A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets". But not the stated answer "Nothing on earth could keep them apart".

Q52: Psycho had around 6 taglines.

Q59 is the same as A&E Q3.

Q69: The Red Dwarf computer was only called "Holly" when played by Norman Lovett. It was "Hilly" when played by Hattie Hayridge (for three series).

Q88: "a compound of oxygen and the hydrogen isotope deuterium produces what" - nothing. It's *known* as heavy water, but produces nothing in itself. Its job is to slow neutrons so they can interact more fully with uranium in plutonium production.

In addition...

Steve says the date is wrong for Star Trek

Brian Boru was not driving out the Vikings but a rival Irish king in the north of Ireland

Kier Hardie formed the Independent Labour Party in 1896 - the British Labour Party was later.

Rawalpindi is not in India

The colon is also the currency of El Salvador

It is not known who invented ice cream - various candidates are Mesopotmia, Arabia, India etc - the Chinese theory is an apochryphal tale from Marco Polo

Banana oil is usually made in the labs - not found any reference to coal

17 errors in 160 questions is ~10%, which, as I'm sure readers can appreciate,is a bit too high for comfort when your match ends in a draw...